Andrew Wyeth
Subtitle: a secret life
By: Richard Meryman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780060171131
Subjects: Painters; Biography
Description: At its most fundamental level, this stunning and unique biography describes a distinguished painter's enterprise of transmitting emotion onto a flat surface. It explores all the factors that have combined to create Andrew Wyeth -- his childhood in a hothouse of creativity; his hypersensitivity; his formidable wife; his identification with people marginalized and misunderstood -- all which have made him an American icon. In the process, his realist works in watercolor and tempera, including the famous "Christina's World," have gained him a special and secure niche in the history of American art.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 438) and index.